COTLB

• Noble six hundred
• Half a league
• Horse and hero fell
• He said
• Theirs but to do and die
• Into the jaws of Death into the mouth of Hell
• Stormed at with shot and shell
• Ballad form to commemorate the soldiers and their bravery
• irregular rhyme scheme creates chaos
• Third person account: anger from someone not involved
• En média res : unprepared reader is thrust into the action to create tension and emphasis the threat and risk faced by the soldiers
• Final line of stanza is repeated each stanza: “six hundred” to create empathy

  changes slightly to show the progression of the Charge